scsi: iscsi: respond to netlink with unicast when appropriate
[ Upstream commit af170928 ] Instead of always multicasting responses, send a unicast netlink message directed at the correct pid. This will be needed if we ever want to support multiple userspace processes interacting with the kernel over iSCSI netlink simultaneously. Limitations can currently be seen if you attempt to run multiple iscsistart commands in parallel. We've fixed up the userspace issues in iscsistart that prevented multiple instances from running, so now attempts to speed up booting by bringing up multiple iscsi sessions at once in the initramfs are just running into misrouted responses that this fixes. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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